PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Physics in France

This doctoral project focuses on the development and multimodal characterisation of gold microstructures fabricated by two-photon laser microfabrication for use in electrochemical sensors and plasmonic devices. The PhD student will investigate the photoreaction mechanisms that lead to the formation of gold nanoparticles from new resins specifically designed for two-photon laser microfabrication. A major part of the work will be the development of a multimodal, multiscale characterisation strateg...

This PhD project focuses on ultrafast electronic rearrangement and relaxation in biomolecules after photoabsorption. The student will investigate how several competing pathways, including very fast femtosecond charge-transfer and local electronic relaxation processes, unfold in complex molecular systems. The research uses a novel strategy based on Auger electrons emitted from a metallic site embedded in a porphyrin derivative. This local probe is used to follow the photoinduced electronic reorga...

This 12-month research opportunity is based at the Centre of Microelectronics within the Flexible Electronics Department (FEL) at Ecole nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Etienne . The project sits in the field of stretchable electronics and optical sensing , with a clear application to artificial skin demonstrators . The appointed researcher will contribute to the development of stretchable optical waveguides and their integration into soft, skin-like sensing systems. The work combines opt...

This postdoctoral project focuses on the molecular-scale structural description of the conductive polymer complex PEDOT:PSS , whose organization remains debated in the scientific literature. The research aims to adapt cryo-TEM structural reconstruction approaches developed in structural biology to a chemistry and polymer-science context. The selected researcher will work on high-resolution cryo-TEM datasets to identify structures in micrographs, select objects according to morphology, and optimi...

This PhD project is about inverse problems for biomedical images , with a specific focus on mammography and breast cancer risk assessment . The research aims to improve the analysis of X-ray mammograms by developing denoising methods that preserve the fine structural properties of mammographic textures, especially the self-similarity and fractal characteristics that can reveal patterns linked to cancer risk. The thesis is rooted in the challenge that risk-related parenchymal patterns can be diff...

This postdoctoral position is hosted at the PMMH, the Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (UMR 7636 CNRS–ESPCI–PSL–Sorbonne Université–Université Paris Cité), in Paris. The project sits at the interface of fluid mechanics, soft matter physics and environmental microbiology, and focuses on how microplastics interact with microorganisms in flowing environments. The postdoctoral researcher will study the hetero-aggregation of microplastics with microorganisms , quantifying ho...

This PhD project is part of H2-TWIN and focuses on building fast, reliable reduced-order models for PEM fuel cell systems from a high-fidelity multiphysics model. The goal is to make these models suitable for real-time simulation, control, monitoring, and system sizing. The doctoral research is centered on data-driven, non-intrusive model reduction , with the Loewner framework as the main methodological base. A key challenge is to extend this framework to the nonlinear structure of fuel-cell mod...

CNRS, at the Institut Pprime site on the Futuroscope campus in Poitiers, is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the ANR MAFIA project. The project brings together academic partners in France, including IC2MP, Institut Pprime, and ICMCB in Bordeaux, together with industrial partner Sunergy, around innovative zinc-air battery architectures and electrochemical energy conversion. The postdoctoral work focuses on the development of state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy methods to cha...

This position is based in the Department of Flexible Electronics (FEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence, within Ecole nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Etienne. The role sits at the intersection of research, innovation, and training, with a strong focus on flexible and stretchable electronics for autonomous systems. The successful candidate will work on the design of complete systems, from sensors through to communication modules, taking into account energy and environmental con...